Wireless Network

Wireless network refers to any type of computer network that is wireless, and is commonly associated with a telecommunications network whose interconnections between nodes is implemented without the use of wires.Wireless telecommunications networks are generally implemented with some type of remote information transmission system that uses electromagnetic waves, such as radio waves, for the carrier and this implementation usually takes place at the physical level or "layer" of the network.

Oracle Data Mining for Business Decision Makers

Oracle Data Mining helps enterprises improve business processes, better understand customer behavior, identify unexpected opportunities, and anticipate problems before they happen. Having the right information at the right time helps you make more informed business decisions and solve critical business problems. Oracle Data Mining enables your organization to see the "forest for the trees" by identifying patterns in your data that normally go unnoticed. Emerging from Oracle's 30 year history of innovative technology, Oracle Data Mining provides answers quickly and easily, not only for your data analysts, but for your IT department as well.

Oracle Data Mining combines the power of Oracle Database, a suite of predictive analytic techniques, and the Oracle Data Miner graphical user interface to take you from data to information quickly and easily. Oracle Data Mining, an option to Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, provides a superior, cost effective analytical platform for users of Oracle technology.

Oracle Data Mining enables you to:

Make Better Decisions:
Oracle Data Mining empowers you to make the important business decisions to simplify your analytical environment, reduce costs and redundant infrastructure, and provide your team with greater insights and predictive capabilities, all by virtue of putting powerful data mining algorithms into Oracle Database.
Solve a wide range of business problems by using Oracle Data Mining's powerful collection of advanced and state-of-the art analytical techniques.

Extract More Value from Your Data:
Collecting and maintaining data is expensive in terms of both machine and human resources. Don't let it sit idle in your database or data warehouse aging out. Use your data to better understand relationships, patterns, and predictions of what your customers are likely to do in the future.

Lower Your Total Cost of Ownership:
Save money by eliminating redundant data and its associated costs in hardware, software, personnel, and its potential inconsistency. Reduce your dependency on traditional statistical departments with special hardware and software environments.

CMMI Process for Development (CMMI-DEV)

Whether your business is developing high-tech systems, consumer software, or IT services, you want to ensure the highest quality product or service is reached, especially if your product or service relies heavily on software.

CMMI-DEV is used for process improvement in development organizations to dramatically improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and quality of their product and service development work. CMMI-DEV also is supported by training courses and appraisal methodologies to help organizations objectively measure their improvement progress.

CMMI-DEV guidance covers the lifecycles of products and services from conception through delivery and maintenance.

Adopting CMMI-DEV is a solid, high-return investment that your organization can make to ensure long-term enduring results. The business benefits experienced by organizations using CMMI-DEV in their process improvement programs include the following:

• Better customer satisfaction
• Increased quality
• More accurate schedules
• Lower development costs
• Substantial return on investment
• Improved employee morale and reduced turnover

CMMI-DEV based process improvement includes identifying your organization’s process strengths and weaknesses and making process changes to turn weaknesses into strengths.
Adopting CMMI-DEV for process improvement is a low-risk activity

Finally you should know that CMMI-DEV based process improvement doesn’t require special tools or exact approaches. The return on investment of such a program more than pays for the monetary investment required.

E-Banking Security: Online Threats and Defenses

To protect yourself against e-banking fraud and the latest e-banking fraud techniques, such as phishing, Trojans and man-in-the-middle attacks a benchmark analysis and risk assessment of your current e-banking authentication system should be performed first.

e-Banking Fraud Schemes Overview :
• Phishing trends, such as spear phishing, pharming, whaling and fast-flux service networks
• Spyware methods, such as banking Trojans
• Man-in-the-middle attacks
• The cyber crime black market
• e-banking fraud statistics
Security Analysis Report:
Using a benchmark analysis approach to evaluate your current e-banking authentication systems and methods. This analysis generates a report that covers:

• The strengths and weaknesses of your existing authentication system
• Security benchmarking of your existing authentication system
• Details of your system’s weaknesses, prioritized by risk

Security Advice
benchmark test provides a thorough review of the latest authentication technologies on the market and recommends those best suited to your circumstances as:

• Security features, such as one-time passwords and e-signatures
• Security features of different authentication platforms, such as hardware authenticators, smart card-based solutions and software-based solutions
• Proper implementation of authentication technologies to prevent social engineering attacks

SharePoint 2010 Beta

If you are using Share Point , i recommend that you try Share Point 2010 it is a beta version now , but it solves some issues of the old versions , SharePoint Foundation 2010 provides the following scalable, reliable, high-performance capabilities for site management :
- Storage : Allowing content such as documents (Office documents, PDFs, .. etc)
- Management : Enabling centralized and delegated administrative facilities
- Deployment : Providing an architecture that supports flexible, distributed, and scalable deployment architectures
- Site Model : Providing a template-based infrastructure for deployment of custom sites
- Extensibility : Delivering a comprehensive application programming interface (API) that allows custom applications to be built on the SharePoint Foundation 2010 architecture, employing use of XML Web services and REST APIs.

the following foundational business-collaboration features:
(Document collaboration, Wikis and blogs, RSS support, Discussion boards, Project task management, Contacts - calendars and tasks , E-mail storing and management , Better design for working with Microsoft Office 2010 and Richer offline support using SharePoint Workspace 2010 )

Google Updates Web Toolkit - Google Web Toolkit 2.0

Google Web Toolkit 2.0, an open source development toolkit for building and optimizing complex browser-based applications, it contain the following features:


- Speed Tracer: tool to allow developers to diagnose performance problems in the browser by modifying with their self’s in the low-level operations deep within the browser.

- Code Splitting: enables developers to safely and easily slice and dice their application code so that other features can be loaded later as needed.

- UiBinder: is a new declarative UI framework in Google Web Toolkit which separate between presentation layer and application logic.

Finally you may need to know that this tool is java based application for all developers.

Context-aware applications using Windows 7 Sensor API

Windows 7 sensor API makes it easier to developers to create applications that deals with hardware components, using this API you can make an application that controls the brightness of the screen.
The COM-based Sensor API works with drivers via extensions to a sensor class and consists of three main interfaces:
· ISensorManager provides methods for identifying and retrieving available sensors, requesting permissions, and controlling what happens when the user connects a sensor to a computer.
· ISensor lets sensors get and set properties, obtain reports, and control sensor-related events.
· ISensorDataReport reports sensor data and provides time stamps.
The common API lets you ensure that your code is going to be able to interact with sensors devices developed by different manufacturers.